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Therapists Fear Emotions? You Can't Guide What You Haven't Experienced! #shorts
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Can therapists guide clients through emotions they fear themselves? This video explores the irony and the re-traumatizing risk when a therapist's journey stops short of the client's pain. #Therapy #MentalHealth #EmotionalJourney #SelfAwareness #Psychology
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I really feel that
and this again, this is my personal
feeling. We can take people as far as
we've gone. We've take we cannot take
people further than that. And if we
as therapists
are afraid of sitting with our own
emotions.
>> Mhm.
>> If we're afraid of doing a breath work
session because I'm afraid [snorts] it
might disregulate me.
>> Mhm.
>> I'm afraid it might be contact with
something inside of me that I'm hiding.
>> Yes.
>> Then how do we have the right
>> Mhm.
>> to sit with clients and ask them to do
the same. If a therapist is not able
>> to sit
>> to sit through a client's deep emotional
process.
>> Mhm.
>> In many ways I feel like it
retraumatizes the client.
>> Mhm.
>> Because that's what traumatized them in
the first place. There was nobody there
who was able to hold them through
whatever it was. But then when they're
in therapy
>> Mhm.
>> and the therapist themselves freak out
>> Mhm.
>> from their emotional experience.
>> Even if it's not being shown on the
outside, right? But they feel it.
>> Exactly. That that's my point.